Article about US deaths in Iraq - 1,188 so far, not 500.

[FloridaPat]

Lies. So many lies.

http://joevialls.altermedia.info/yourson.html

[bobbieinok]

1. what's the credibility of this source??

It appears to be quite anti-semitic.

I realize a bias does not necessarily negate the info.

I would appreciate info on the site's track record.

The specifics - that soldiers clearly dead are listed as dead but the ones who die 2 minutes into evacuation are never listed as dead - sounds a bit too likely.

[indepat]

2. The 1,188 so far is likely much closer to the real number: we know

how some like to "play like," like playing like if you don't die in the first few minutes, then you weren't killed in action. How dishonest, how disingenuous, how disrespectful to the dead and the families of the dead, how deceiving to the American people, how neo-conish.

[tom_paine]

3. Bingo. Not to mention the other tricks they've used to keep the number

low.

I remember a particulary Soviet-style story about a "non-combat death" in which two soldiers were driving down the street in their Hummer when Iraqi insurgents opened fire on them.

As a result of the incoming fire, the Hummer swerved and struck a brick wall full on, killing one soldier and wounding another.

I'd have to dig to find the article, but the soldier killed was listed as an "accidental death"! :wtf:

As with all of the other Imperial lies, half-truths, and frauds, it's always MUCH WORSE than the iceberg's tip that occasionally is revealed. I would guess the actual number of Amerikan Imperial Combat Deaths is actually close to 2,000.

At least, as combat deaths are reckoned in the Free World. Imperial Amerika, in keeping with the rest of it's slide into Totalitarian Darkness, keeps these figures in much the same way as the rest of our fellow Third World Nations do.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. It is very important to maintain the mask of illusion.

If the people find out inconvenient truths, they will overreact to trivia such as a few deaths among the plebeiean classes, and may derail, or at least seriously hamper the work of, those of us tasked with carrying out the Grand Design.

[Karenina]

6. It's really true...

This "rotation" will do it. The "real deal" returns to America in the form of mutilated and/or psychotic kids (whose health care has been CUT, btw, May G-d bless them), lifers & enlists, who will get the Sam Hill OUT (ASAP) and sundry assorted folks whose lives and LIVELIHOODS have been VIOLENTLY affected by this *clusterfuck, physically and economically. The ideology requires a quantum leap in consciousness...

That happens or a shitload o' folks die. So it appears to me...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

5. over 10,000 US soldiers injured/wounded as of last Nov...source: Pentagon

[Don_G]

7. They Count Only The Troops

Discovered with bullet holes and shrapnel in them.

Traffic accidents, stress-related disorders and anything not munitions related aren't counted as a casualty of war.